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Thank you

I appreciate you protecting my talk page to quell the vandalism. In the past, I generally disliked the idea of my talk page being protected, given that I like new and IP users being able to contact me if they have issues with my edits, but this vandalism clearly wouldn't go away without administrative action. Once again, thank you for all you do here. JeffSpaceman (talk) 16:04, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@JeffSpaceman You're welcome, and I've felt the same way with my talk page in the past. A short-term protection seems to strike the balance. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:09, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Blocking an IP range

Hello. I would like to ask you to consider blocking 41.150.0.0/16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log). The range was active recently, and a very large amount of vandalism was (persistently) coming from it. I tried to report it to AIV, but I was told to report it to ANI. My ANI report got archived without any response. That is why I chose to reach out to an individual admin. If you think the range should be blocked, please do so, and if not, I will be glad for an explanation. Many thanks. Janhrach (talk) 17:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Janhrach Normally I'd be reluctant with a range as big as a /16 but almost all edits coming from that range are vandalism so I've blocked it for six months. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:37, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! Janhrach (talk) 17:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at User talk:Cmanon § Your username

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Cmanon § Your username. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:26, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi HJ Mitchell. Since you seem fairly active at WP:UAA and are also an oversighter, I thought I ask you about this before to see whether it's worth discussing at UAA. As you can see on this user's user talk page, I've mentioned the potential issues with their username a couple of months ago, but they never responded. They, however, showed up again earlier today to edit Christian Manon, which is why it showed up in my watchlist. If there's nothing to worry about here, I'll remove the page from my watchlist and leave things be, except for the outstanding file issues. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:32, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
@Marchjuly My personal opinion is that if they're not doing anything disruptive, they're probably best left alone but if you want more input, there's WP:RFC/N. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for taking a look at this. I concur with your assessment that that user hasn't (at least so far) done anything that's really would be considered disruptive, which is the main reason why I didn't start a UAA discussion about them. I guess action can always be taken if they someday do start causing problems. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:10, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Harry :) Sent you an Email. I'm new editor in Wikipedia

Hi Harry. I sent you an Email regards to a page deleted by you. I'm new editor in Wikipedia. Waiting for your response. Thank you :) 2024july (talk) 19:31, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Unblock request

There's an unblock request at User talk:SilverBullet X, for a block you imposed. I am in favour of lifting the block, but perhaps you can have a look at it and see what you think. The block was, in my opinion 100% right, but the editor has done about as good a job as I have ever seen of showing an acceptance that what he did was wrong and indicating that he won't do the same again. Of course the fact that he says so doesn't prove that he won't, but I can't see any reason for not giving him a chance to prove that he means it (or show that he doesn't, and needs to be reblocked). Any thoughts? JBW (talk) 21:28, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@JBW that seems a reasonable request. No objection to you unblocking. Apologies for the tardy response. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:36, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll go ahead. 👍 JBW (talk) 10:41, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Anon IP hoaxish-disruptive

Hi hi. I noted today your block of [1] from Oct 23, 2023, likewise a similar block of Favonian of [2] June this year. This appears to be the same disruptive editor I encountered a few weeks back - I encountered these IPs 2603:7000:5F00:3E19:8634:2711:2DCF:F22F, 2603:7000:5F00:3E19:265:17CB:ACEA:5EEA, 2603:7000:5F00:3E19:957:73ED:665F:AEE1, 2600:1017:B806:6428:CC04:FDFF:FE25:F3F0, 2600:1017:B819:2CE0:CD3:32FF:FE50:2D18, 2603:7000:5F00:3E19:E3B5:DE09:7C54:B558, 2607:FA49:5241:5D00:71A3:22AC:1D12:3489. The pattern of editing is similar, seemingly getting a kick out of editing vast number of pages and adding factoids arbitrarily. Most of it is just nuisance edits, but some of it becomes WP:HOAX such as his edits at Wesh Zalmian.

Is there a SPI or ANI case where this was reviewed? Is there any past block or ban decision that can be referred to in a SPI or ANI report when new IPs from the same user appears? -- Soman (talk) 13:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/102.67.77.155

Hi @HJ Mitchell. You blocked 102.67.77.42 on few days ago. But they are currently using 102.67.77.155 with the same pattern. Can you take a look and block range of 102.67.76.0/22, regards. AmritR012 (talk) 17:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@AmritR012 I've blocked the/22 for a month but I doubt that will stop someone so obsessive. Let me know if they get round it, otherwise I'm guessing I'll need to renew it in just over a month's time. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

User:Rverything works for us all

Thank you for blocking User:Rverything works for us all - could you please remove their User talk page access as well? Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 10:09, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

@Arjayay done. I had a feeling that might be necessary. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:19, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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Your block of Swostika Neupane

Thanks for blocking the ref-spammer. It looks like there's some sockpuppetry going on here. Himalayan00 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been posting the same group of tour-guide related websites, as have a bunch of IPV6 addresses. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:53, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm putting a SPI report together at the moment. 10mmsocket (talk) 16:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
...thanks for the block 10mmsocket (talk) 16:07, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
@10mmsocket I'm not surprised. Where there's one spammer, there's normally more. I'll run a CU when I get chance. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:09, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
@10mmsocket Found a few more. They're sharing some pretty broad ranges with lots of other editors, including good-faith contributors, so I'm loathe to make large range blocks. I'll blacklist the domains though. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:57, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Here's the list of links involved. Probably more.
And here's the list of IP's and users
These are also likely involved
Happy to pull all this together as an SPI if you would rather me do that. 10mmsocket (talk) 17:04, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
And one more
Thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 17:07, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
@10mmsocket I've blocked all the accounts (and quite a few more) and blacklisted all the domains. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:04, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. Roger & out. 10mmsocket (talk) 20:36, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
No worries. I'll take all the link spammers you want to give me. Might take me a day or two but I like breaking up these spam rings. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:24, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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Block lovella please 2404:C0:1C10:0:0:0:E54:682B (talk) 12:04, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

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Crab IP address thing again (q_q)

Hi again, HJ. Seemingly immediately after the IP ban of 143.44.169.184 expired, this edit popped up. Based on the current state of the talk page, I'm almost led to wonder if they're using an LLM to generate garbage, but then the grammar leads me to believe it's likely hand-written. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 14:15, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@TheTechnician27 this is still on my radar. I promise I'll get to it but might be Sunday/Monday. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:40, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
@HJ Mitchell: Don't worry one bit about it. You already do more than I could hope to do for the project, and anything you do at all surrounding this is still a huge help. For right now, the IP is still making edits to articles, but in a weird way, it encourages me to immediately improve them, because I often write something to replace what they've written. When life gives you lemons... TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 13:56, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Question

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinMX&oldid=1249940571 this edit gets rid of of simple fixes because of coi but its an improvement over the archives •Cyberwolf•talk? 16:56, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

@Cyberwolf Apparently I didn't look closely enough. I've reverted myself. Thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:00, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Mhm, your very welcome •Cyberwolf•talk? 18:00, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Sigh

Please put back the correct title for 'Muslim grooming gangs in the UK' from Grooming gang moral panic in the UK which you incorrectly changed it too Khillpps (talk) 16:17, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See WP:NPOV. Polygnotus (talk) 16:27, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Mells War Memorial

Hi Harry, you have listed this for TFA at pending for November. I have tentatively reserved a date for it, but if you would still like it be considered you will need to nominate it at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests, which is now open. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild I don't remember doing that. I usually just let you tell me when my FAs are getting their day in the sun but it's always nice if we can run something topical on Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:22, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Thoughts

Hi! About 11 months ago you very kindly gave me rollback rights, saying that you thought I'd make good use of them. You also said you thought I'd potentially make a good admin someday, but that it was obviously a bit early at that point to consider it. Having received the pop-up about the trial admin election process I am toying with the idea of throwing my hat in; as someone with significant tenure who's seen my contributions over a significant length of time, I was wondering if you had any thoughts (whether it's still too early etc).

Any feedback, however brief and/or blunt, would be appreciated. Thanks! AntiDionysius (talk) 22:37, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I can say that I generally find your AIV reports to be reliably good, which is a good sign for an anti-vandal admin. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
That's good to hear, thank you! AntiDionysius (talk) 23:02, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
@AntiDionysius I'm really pleased you're thinking about adminship. I know you've seen me action a lot of your AIV reports. You'll also have seen how quickly the reports stack up at that board if there's no admin available promptly. The things that have made me hesitate from asking you are fairly straightforward: activity and content. Your bar chart is a bit erratic, which is easily overcome but is the sort of thing voters pick up on at RfA. Less easy is the content. In general, you need to be able demonstrate a good working knowledge of policy (the core three, NPOV, NOR, V + things like BLP and copyright, CSD if you have any intention of working there and anything applicable to the areas you want to work in) as opposed to an arbitrary number of FAs but it's always nice to have a candidate with skin in the game. It's easier to sympathise with a frustrated good editor if you've had to defend something you've written.

That's my assessment of the potential stumbling blocks but I'd vote for you. The admin elections are something new so I would encourage you to give it a go. Wikipedians don't like change so hopefully lots of good candidates will prove that this a good one. I think the worst case scenario is you come in under the bar, in which case we spend six months or so getting you some experience in the areas you lack and then try again. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:50, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

That's really useful feedback, thank you so much. I think I will give it a try because, as you say, the worst case scenario is that it's too soon and we revisit it in a few months. Thanks again! AntiDionysius (talk) 19:20, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Good. You'll have my support. I couldn't begin to guess what the result will be. It'll be interesting to observe. For those of us not affected of course! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:14, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, looks like it's shaping up to be quite the election. I don't know what's worse, watching things play out in real time, or not knowing how you're doing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:19, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
I dunno. Seeing it as it happens gives you a right of reply and you can at least see where you've gone wrong if you're getting opposition, but then sometimes it's hard to resist the urge to try to "fix" people's opinions of you and you can end up digging yourself a deeper hole. Either way it's a nail biter. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:24, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
I can see arguments for both. When the actual voting happens I'm going to be in the process of moving halfway across Europe which may go some way to distracting me, anyway. AntiDionysius (talk) 22:24, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Heading east or west? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:27, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
East, to begin a PhD. AntiDionysius (talk) 22:28, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
And you have enough spare time you want to be a Wikipedia admin! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:30, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
I've always been ambitious like that! AntiDionysius (talk) 22:36, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today for Shooting of Stephen Waldorf, introduced: "London. 1983. A police task force is hunting a dangerous escaped criminal. Thinking they've got their man, they follow a car through the West End. When the car grinds to a halt in traffic, an armed officer moves in to confirm their suspect's identity. Apparently believing his quarry has recognised him, the officer opens fire without warning. Two more armed officers join in the shooting and, having run out of ammunition, the first officer begins clubbing the man with the butt of his revolver. Only afterwards do the officers realise that the man, who survived but suffered five bullet wounds and a broken skull, is not the escaped criminal David Martin but a 26-year-old film editor named Stephen Waldorf. There was considerable outcry in the public and the press. Two police officers were charged with (but acquitted of) attempted murder and the British government rapidly initiated reforms to police firearms policy."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:32, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Harry, the above article drew my attention immediately; I checked the FAC and saw it was one of yours. Congratulations on a well-written and compelling article on a relatively unknown incident (at least to me!). I have a copy of London's Armed Police that has sat in my reading pile for years, I might now shuffle it towards the top! - Dumelow (talk) 09:43, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

@Dumelow thank you. That means a lot, especially coming from someone whose FAs I've admired! The book is worth a read but is obviously dated now. I've done a handful of police shootings. The politics around them in the UK is interesting and they're the sort of subject that's important to cover but that tends to be forgotten with time, at least until the next mistake. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:57, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Shooting of Stephen Waldorf

Hi, can you explain to me why you consider 5 links in 6 sentences to be overlinking regarding the shooting of Stephen Waldorf? This isn't a case of excessive linking, but rather the normal amount for WP versus no links at all in the lead section. It doesn't meet "inline links present relatively small tap targets on touchscreen devices, placing several separate inline links close together within a section of text can make navigation more difficult for readers with limited dexterity or coordination" either. –Tobias (talk) 13:12, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Tobias, I removed the links because in my opinion none of them would add to the reader's understanding and would distract from the article. Police officer, bullet wound, attempted murder, and fractured skull for example are all self-explanatory. The remaining link was attempting to shoehorn something in that's not clear to the reader (an Easter egg link). That link is already in the see also section, which makes it much clearer to readers wishing to explore the topic further. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:48, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
How is that different from 'revolver,' 'gunsmith', or 'pistol-whipping'? While they are all self-explanatory, they hide more complex topics such as attempted murder (by jurisdiction) or skull fractures (and medical associations) that can be interesting to explore when reading the article. Nonetheless, you're right about the Easter egg link. –Tobias (talk) 21:25, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
I've learnt that revolver is not as commonly understood as I used to think. The other two could probably go without any loss to the reader. It's true that the links lead to articles that explore those topics in more detail but at this point in Wikipedia's history, that would be true of just about any noun if you put square brackets round it, so I tend to focus on the things that aren't well known and which might add helpful context. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:33, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
I wouldn't bet on that. 'Revolver' is factually far more common than 'handgun', so everyone who knows the latter, knows the former too, but not the other way around. You might just have encountered the wrong people for your survey. Technically, you can hyperlink every word, but I'm focusing on the most prominent ones to avoid cluttering a paragraph with links and removing all of them, while maintaining a good balance. That's why only the first location, for example in birthplaces or similar contexts, is linked—not everything following the first city, but also not nothing, regardless of the city's prominence. –Tobias (talk) 10:03, 16 October 2024 (UTC)


More information about banned user IP

Recently I came across some pretty intentionally wrong edits of the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Index. They changed the top entry of the index list from Burkina Faso to Israel. From the diffs, the user was not that experienced in Wiki Editing. Their IP is in the range you blocked, 106.222.208.0/22, so I was wondering what that whole thing is about. I'm also pretty new to Wiki Editing, so feel free to tell me how wrong I'm doing this. IOSOVI (talk) 11:36, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

TPA

Greetings HJ Mitchell. Could you please revoke talk page access for Anamya1? You spamublock-ed them but they're continuing to spam their talk page even after that. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:22, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I've reverted their spam. Let's hope they don't continue to spam it again. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 14:24, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
@Drm310, @NoobThreePointOh thank you bith. TPA yanked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:25, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

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You might wanna just wholesale revdel everything, considering it's widespread in both summaries and edits themselves. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 11:55, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

@LilianaUwU I deliberately left the edits. It's enough that they were reverted. If we could do something similar for edit summaries we would but our only option there is to delete them. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:05, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

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Edits from User:63.74.0.0/16

Saw you block some of the ips on this range 63.74.0.0/16 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)), but it would probably be best to just block the entire range? The subnet reports as Verizon business, so probably coming from a single location Trim02 (talk) 17:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

@Trim02 Thanks. At least some of those IPs are registered to a school district by the looks of it so I've soft-blocked the /16. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:07, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

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User :78.57.210.148

Hi sorry to bother you. Can you chek this user? His contributions seemed to me not objective as are all on lithuan history and cities and with no sources. WP:NOR WP:POV Lord Ruffy98 (talk) 23:20, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

The Bill

Hey, really sorry to see that The Bill is no longer a GA. I only noticed that it was up for review yesterday and tried to help out with a few sources, but it was seemingly too late. I'm surprised it got delisted based off one comment, but I suppose sourcing is an important one! – JuneGloom07 Talk 22:43, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

It's a shame. I saw the review but the article needs quite a lot of work and it's been a few years since I've been involved with it. I'd essentially be starting from scratch and I don't really have that kind of time or energy at the moment. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
I get you. Although it's back at GAR again lol. I don't mind adding a few sources here and there, but I'm not keen on trying to rewrite anything. – JuneGloom07 Talk 03:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Curious question

I am curious about Draft:Daniel Upton – I know it was deleted earlier today but I can't see any logs for it, which is not something I've seen before! There's a deletion log entry for Draft talk:Daniel Upton, saying you deleted that. Was the draft deletion log suppressed for some reason, or is this just a database hiccup? --bonadea contributions talk 11:33, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

@Bonadea I suppressed the entire page, which leaves no trace that it ever existed unless you knew to look for it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:46, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
I see – thanks! You live and learn. --bonadea contributions talk 11:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Socks?

Hi, Harry. I noticed you indeffed Random things to think, I assume mainly for the stuff that was caught by the edit filter. Do you think Wiki adult films may be the same person? The accounts were created just 8 minutes apart, and I've speedied both their userpages. Do you want to CU them? Or do you think I have reason enough to indeff Wiki adult films as is? (I'm not sure, as porn isn't exactly outlawed on Wikipedia.) Bishonen | tålk 19:32, 29 October 2024 (UTC).

@Bishonen you'll be shocked (shocked!) to hear that out scatological friends are  Technically indistinguishable. I only ran the check in case there were any more out there. I've indef'd WAF. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:08, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Amazing! Bishonen | tålk 21:33, 29 October 2024 (UTC).

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Regarding User Priyanshudhalglt

I'm writing to report that User Priyanshudhalglt has repeatedly uploaded files that violate copyright on Wikimedia Commons, with several of these contributions already deleted due to copyright issues. Given the pattern of infringements, could a formal warning be issued to help prevent further violations? If needed, a temporary block might also be considered to ensure compliance with Wikimedia's copyright policies. VeritasVanguard (talk) 10:42, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

@VeritasVanguard (talk page watcher) Wikimedia Commons is a different website from Wikipedia, though they are owned by the same non-profit. You can warn Priyanshudhalglt yourself by going to Wikimedia Commons, searching for User:Priyanshudhalglt, and adding {{subst:File copyright status}} (for the first warning) or {{subst:End of copyvios}} (for the second). If they've received both warnings, search for COM:AN/U and report them there. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 16:31, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #95969

The block log indicates appellant should contact you. Appellant was rebuffed on their talk page -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:52, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra I'm happy to AGF for anyone who makes a coherent request from that range. Could you accept the appeal please, and if necessary grant IPBE? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:59, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
I will do my best. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:49, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
This is the user who filed the appeal. Thank you for granting me an exemption. Chaitanyathengdi (talk) 08:57, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
@Chaitanyathengdi you're welcome. Happy editing. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:30, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Your block's problem

I am from India and I was trying to create an account but when I tried, it was written that I can't edit pages because of a block issued by you (HJ Mitchell). So, I decided to not create an account and firstly message you. Please help me. 146.196.34.196 (talk) 06:07, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) What's strange is that I just checked your block log, and it doesn't appear that the IP address you used to write this message has any block currently. There are blocks in the past, but they've expired and weren't issued by HJ Mitchell. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 08:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
It's a proxy https://utrs-beta.wmflabs.org/appeal/95969 -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:53, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
@Deepfriedokra Contrary to popular belief, I'm not an admin, so can't view that. The situation seems resolved, anyways. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 16:12, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
@I dream of horses ever thought of changing tgat? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:31, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Briefly, but no. I'm content with delegating the real work to the adults admins. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 11:17, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

readded
removed

CheckUser changes

removed Maxim

Oversighter changes

removed Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Draft talk:M R Sameer Khan

Hello, HJ,

There is a request on this draft talk page for protection to be lowered on the draft page so that this editor can work on a draft. It's not a promising start but it's unusual to have full protection on a page in Draft space and I wanted to ask you if it could be lowered. I'm not sure of the circumstances that led to full protection but do you think it is still necessary? Thanks for considering this request. Liz Read! Talk! 18:27, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Draft reads more like a promo or resume to me. Blake Gripling (talk) 23:05, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
@Liz, the drafter is probably evading a block. The draft was created three times by two different accounts and an IP and has been deleted three times as spam. Full protection is unusual but ECP is just a target to aim for. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:51, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

quick revdel request

A bad edit was made on red bull recently and I believe it's worthy a revdel. Heres the link: expunged Gaismagorm (talk) 18:37, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

also while you're at it expunged is also a pretty bad edit. Gaismagorm (talk) 18:56, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
@Gaismagorm (talk page watcher) Please don't publicly link edits you want rev-deleted. We don't want to call more attention to them. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 19:08, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
ah okay my bad. Do you want me to remove these links? Gaismagorm (talk) 19:13, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
A big reason I do this was cause I was told I could do it like this by an admin, but I am willing to change how I do it however. Gaismagorm (talk) 19:16, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
@Gaismagorm You can remove those links, and you probably should. They're pretty mild compared to what I've seen, but I've seen things that have needed to be oversighted.
Which admin told you to do it like this? I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 19:44, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Joyous. They also didn't tell me to do it like this, rather that this was an option. Gaismagorm (talk) 19:47, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
also don't worry, I know not to post things covered by oversight. Gaismagorm (talk) 19:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
also I checked and WP:REVDELREQUEST says that this is viable (so long as privacy isn't of concern, which I'm assuming is mainly there to cover things like doxxing and extraordinarily vulgar/disgusting content/images). Gaismagorm (talk) 19:53, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
@Gaismagorm I think this is is a situation where we're both correct and both wrong. If racial slurs are rev deletable, they'd be RD2, which is listed as something that shouldn't be dealt with publicly. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 21:03, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
ah okay Gaismagorm (talk) 21:10, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Spam

Hi, nice to meet you! We recently identified a farm of accounts that publish spam in mass. The accounts have identical modifications (posting the same spam links and editing the infobox). User:ElRobertico, User:FoxWithAMoon, User:ZeleniListovi, User:NancyW92, User:IamSnooob new - User:Onegaborwe, User:Rare Voguer, User:Cupcakeguru, User:SPARKLINGcream

P.S As I am not familiar with the lock process and I don't have these special rights, please do it yourself if you are available (or refer me to someone who can help me).

Thanks! Bexaendos (talk) 20:34, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

@Bexaendos thanks for the report. I'm always happy to take reports about spam. I'll look into this in the morning (UK time). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:34, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Once I identify such similar cases I will get back to you! Bexaendos (talk) 10:34, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
@Bexaendos I've looked at all those accounts now. Funnily enough, I can't connect any of them using checkuser but they're clearly the same person or a small group. I've blocked all the accounts and blacklisted the domains they were spamming. Let me know if you see anything else like this. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:43, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

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Promenade de Verdun War Memorial

Not heard of this one before. Do any of your books have anything on it? Oddly, Pevsner doesn't mention it, though it does cover Woodcote. KJP1 (talk) 07:31, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

@KJP1 Pevsner can be hit and miss on memorials that aren't by famous architects/sculptors. Leave it with me for a few days and I'll see if I can find anything. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:37, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Just a note to keep this from being archived. I haven't forgotten. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:08, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
@KJP1 apologies for my tardiness. I've sent you some book pages I hope will be of use. I'll scour a few other books but I doubt I'll find anything with the same level of detail. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:42, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

TFA - war memorials

story · music · places

Thank you today - well timed - for Mells War Memorial, introduced (in 2017): "Another war memorial. Another Lutyens. But this one's a little different. Lutyens did not just design memorials for major towns and cities like my previous few nominations but also for lots of tiny little places in the middle of nowhere, usually in connection with his pre-war work on country houses. Such was the case with Mells (population ~600 in 2011), where Lutyens' friendship with the owners of the manor resulted in multiple commissions. The story of this tiny village's war memorial is a microcosm of a nation's pain and grief following the slaughter of the First World War."! - Madeleine Riffaud would have been as suitable for the Main page today, but appeared yesterday. Reger composed music as a war memorial in 1915, the (German) text beginning "Soul, forget them not". He called it Requiem, - see my story and music for both. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Got a minute?

Hey dude, hope you're well. It's absolutely freezing here in Wales, maybe your part of the UK is warmer haha. Also, thanks for your reply to my RevDel ticket.

I was hoping you could take a look at the recent edits to this page please? I've seen this in the past with Vietnamese-related pages, a newly registered editor comes along and basically removes the entire page over the course of a few hours citing hoax/unsourced. It just doesn't seem quite right to me. Thanks in advance, OXYLYPSE (talk) 12:57, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

@OXYLYPSE it's a but chilly down here on the south coast. I don't normally feel the cold but must admit even I think it's a bit nippy. Vietnam is a lkng way outside my area of expertise. I can have a look but i don't know if I'll be able to tell you anything you don't already know. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:48, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Haha, it really is! Vietnam isn't really my area either, it just seems like a new editor removing ~5.5k bytes from an potentially contentious article deserves a closer look - I just don't know enough about the area to comment further. Either way, have a great weekend :) OXYLYPSE (talk) 23:39, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Happy Monday. I was right! User:Sotrchbook has been blocked as a sock, I knew there was something off about those edits. OXYLYPSE (talk) 08:04, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Old Wolverton Road Bridge

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Nomination of Old Wolverton Road Bridge for deletion

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Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. About me; Talk to me. Farewell fellow editor... 00:29, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

The 'airport vandal' is back: requesting second rangeblock for 5.55.0.0/16

Hi HJ Mitchell,

Last year in November you blocked the IP range 5.55.0.0/16 for one year, due to persistent disruption mostly on airport-related articles. This IP user is dubbed the 'airport vandal' by an editor that regularly deals with edits from this pest.

Fast forward to today, the one-year-long /16 rangeblock has now expired, and unfortunately it appears this same person is back to making the same kind of disruption to airport-related articles again, right after the block expiration, e.g. diff 1, diff 2, diff 3. I think it needs another rangeblock.

Regards, — AP 499D25 (talk) 06:11, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@AP 499D25 that's some remarkable persistence! I've put a longer block on the range. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:33, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
I've seen worse but yeah, 1 year, that's quite some dedication! Anyways thanks, and I'm sure @The Banner (the user constantly dealing with this LTA's edits) appreciates it too! — AP 499D25 (talk) 13:27, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate your concern. An AIV-report for this and a second range went stale, so I resubmitted it. To be true, as far as I can see things have quieted down a bit. I guess 5.55 is their home connection so the block has been inconvenient (what we intend). The Banner talk 13:49, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

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Could you block this sock IP?

Hi HJ Mitchell, I'm posting this here because you came up as a recently active administrator. If you have the time, could you please block the IP range 2405:4803:C7A6:2D20:E862:FF5:0:0/64, as they are an obvious sock of MYSKaoi and 2012An(4thwm1), who was recently blocked here? Happily888 (talk) 12:34, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

@Happily888 Blocked for a week. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:38, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Happily888 (talk) 12:43, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Just gotta say

Your byline musing is getting absolutely savaged. I almost feel like that was a plant to give people an easy option and to show they read your musings column. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:54, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I probably should have seen that coming. But the musings aren't there because everyone will agree with them (if that were the case they'd just be policy!) and I'm much more interested in how people make their case and defend it than in whether they agree with me. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:59, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
I kind of expected more people to foam at the mouth at the characterisation of ArbCom as a governing body... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, maybe people won't consider them a governing body when they can't cut entire topics off from non-EC editors, make new rules out of whole cloth, and place irreversible no-public-reason blocks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:48, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
I think the irreversible blocks are possibly one of the least controversial things we do—they're rare (I think the number we've done this year can be counted on one hand) and generally people understand that there's a very good reason for it but we can't tell them what it is. And I think most people are glad they don't have to make those sorts of decisions. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:23, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

what exactly is a "community" position?

I don't necessarily disagree with your edit, but I think the intent was that admins and BAG memebers are selected by the community, whereas membership for non-arbs on the fucntionaries team is entirely under the control of the committee. That's my read anyway. I agree the term is at best undefined. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 00:15, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

@Just Step Sideways I think I see what it was getting at but it didn't define the term, as you say, and it implied that functionaries belonged to a second, unspecified group. The important distinction is that functionaries are bound by the ANPDP and their roles involve private information. I think the old version could also have been read that functionaries are somehow superior to admins/'crats/BAG (not sure why the last one is relevant?) when in fact we all take on the roles that interest us. Always good to hear from you. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:34, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Diddy

HJ, does Dark1618 = P.diddysucks? I already noticed that Dark1618 was a strange new user, but hadn't seen anything so disruptive until their last edit to Talk:Sean Combs, which was preceded just a couple days ago by a similar edit by P.diddysucks (P.diddysucks's edits were much worse and their username is a red flag). FWIW, the two users also edit on the same mobile platform.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:35, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

@Bbb23 magic 8-ball says no. Different continents. I suppose it's to be expected with subjects who are in the news. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:53, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, HJ. I took the liberty of correcting my typos in my original post.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:57, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
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